BUNDY BLAMES PORNOGRAPHY

With the clock ticking toward his scheduled execution, Ted Bundy tearfully blamed a growing addiction to pornography for fueling one of the most gruesome killing sprees in recent history.

During an intimate interview with a California broadcaster Monday, Bundy dredged up memories of a happy childhood that turned into a tortured Jekyll-and-Hyde nightmare.

''Pornography . . . was the fuel for his fantasies to do the things he did,'' said James Dobson, who videotaped his interview. ''There was a great deal of remorse. He wept several times while talking to me. He`s going through a lot of agony tonight.''

Lawyers for the 42-year-old serial killer filed late appeals with the Florida and U.S. Supreme Courts, but were turned down by both.

Three state psychiatrists were prepared to examine Bundy in case of a last-minute claim of insanity.

The tape of the Monday interview, which triggered a seven-hour battle between Dobson and Bundy`s attorneys, was to be released only if Bundy`s execution was carried out as scheduled at 7 a.m. Tuesday (6 a.m. Chicago time).

Dobson, who was a member of the federal Attorney General`s Commission on Pornography in 1985-86, said of his interview with Bundy:

''There was nothing he would see visually that could give him that high, and he made the tragic jump, and he killed a person. For six months, he

(Bundy) couldn`t believe he had done that. That subsided, and the sexual frenzy occurred again, and he killed another woman. He did it so many times that it got so he could not feel (emotion).''

Dobson said Bundy, whom he did not know previously, had contacted him for the execution-eve interview.

''He was quiet most of the time,'' said R.W. Macmaster, the prison information officer, referring to an interview Bundy granted a California religious broadcaster Monday afternoon.

''He seemed a little depressed most of the time. It appeared to me that he realizes that there`s only a few hours left before 7 o`clock tomorrow and realizes the finality of the situation.'' The execution was scheduled for 7 a.m. (6 a.m. Chicago time).

Bundy, who had spent 10 years on Death Row, had won three stays of execution in the past.

Bundy, who has been linked to the grisly murders of at least 20 women, confessed Sunday to two murders in Idaho in which he had not been a suspect. On Saturday, he confessed to 10 murders in Washington state and one each in Oregon and Colorado, officials said.

He has been convicted of three murders in Florida, including those of two sorority sisters on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee. He was to be executed for the 1978 slaying of a 12-year-old Lake City schoolgirl. ''From what I`ve heard the last couple of days, he`s the premier serial killer,'' said Bob Keppel, an investigator for the Washington attorney general`s office, who interviewed Bundy over the weekend. ''There`s not another man like him of his magnitude of killings across the U.S.''

''I think he was born to kill,'' said Keppel, the original head of the

''I don`t know if it`s a bad seed or what. He was totally consumed with murder.''

Keppel said it appeared that Bundy was witholding other confesions in the hope of being granted a stay. ''Bundy never sang like a bird,'' Keppel said.

''It was all orchestrated and pre-selected.''

If anything, the weekend confessions only heightened the gruesomeness of Bundy`s murders. He said that after raping and killing his victims, he deposited their bludgeoned, mangled bodies in forest preserves, where weather and what he called the ''beasties'' would ravage and scatter them, authorities said.

There were indications that Bundy visited the dumping sites, sometimes mutilating the corpses. Experts suspect that he may have been a necrophiliac. ''He was just totally consumed with murder, he had to be,'' said Keppel.

''He was constantly searching for victims, constant visits to the dump sites, that type of thing.''

Bundy, a law school dropout, fooled first the police and then the public with his wholesome good looks and captivating sincerity. A fundraiser in Utah collected $15,000 for his defense and he continued to receive letters from admiring females after his conviction. He married after he was on Death Row.

His 1979 trial, the first aired on national television, drew an estimated 40 million viewers. And his life has been turned into a movie and half a dozen books.

His grip on the public imagination could be gauged Monday by the flood of national reporters who descended on this small north-central Florida town. Nearly two dozen mini-vans, their satellite antennas set to broadcast live, were stationed across from the faded lime-green prison, ready to track the final countdown to the execution.

On the roadside near the prison, George Johnson was hawking $10 ''Burn, Bundy, Burn'' T-shirts printed in a fiery red. The shirts, with a caricature of a sweating Bundy strapped to the electric chair, were selling briskly among women, Johnson said.

At 5 a.m. Tuesday, Bundy was to be offered his last meal, the traditional steak and eggs. Then his head and right calf were to be shaved to improve electrical conductivity. He was to be showered and dressed in a white shirt and dark blue suit trousers.

The suit coat was being reserved for the funeral. But prison officials said no one had made arrangements to pick up his body.